Biography

Dr. Toru Ouchi is a graduate from the Osaka University School of Medicine. After postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University, he started his lab at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of New York University to study molecular mechanism of mammary tumor development of BRCA1-deficiencet cells. In 2012, he joined Roswell Park Cancer Institute from University of Chicago as Member and Professor of Oncology.

He is involved in Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program and Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics Graduate Program of University at Buffalo. He is chairing the Systems Biology Lecture Series.

Background

Education and Training:

1992, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

1993-1997, Postdoc, The Rockefeller University

1997-2006, Assistant/Associate Professor, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of New York University

Our research uses cell culture, animal model and genome dataset. Biological functions of cellular proteins are investigated by overexpression/knockdown/knockout in cell culture and animal model. We are studying how abnormal activation/inactivation of specific signaling pathways results in causing human diseases. We are also performing translational analysis by taking advantage of anti-disease drugs in both models.